The Canada Social Report : UPDATEhttp://www.canadasocialreport.ca
November 16, 2015The Canada Social Report continues to evolve and
to include new collaborators and partners.
Here are some additions since its launch in June 2015.

* On the recommendation of colleagues
at the Canadian Council of the Blind, we added the descriptor A
Compendium of Social Information to make clear the initiatives
purpose.

* The Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator (CTaCS)
[ http://www.canadasocialreport.ca/TaxSimulator/
]  was developed by Economics Professor Kevin Milligan at the University
of British Columbia. It is an open software package that simulates the Canadian
personal income tax and transfer system.

Help us continue to build the Canada Social Report! Use the Canada Social Report sites response
boxes or contact caledon@caledoninst.org with ideas, reports and
links you want to share.
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Canada Social Reporthttp://www.canadasocialreport.ca/
By Ken Battle and Sherri Torjman
June 16, 2015
The Canada Social Report is a new initiative being undertaken by the Caledon
Institute of Social Policy along with our partners and colleagues. Partners
with Caledon in this project include the Maytree Foundation, the J.W. McConnell
Foundation, the Metcalf Foundation and the Government of Ontario.

The recent loss of data in Canada - especially the troubling dismantling
of the long-form Census - inspired us to launch this effort.
(...)Some content in the report takes the form of statistical
data that paint a portrait of social Canada  who we are, how many
participate in the paid labour market, our average levels of income, and
the extent and depth of poverty in the country. The statistical data also
include profiles of selected social programs, annual caseloads and designated
benefits.

Other components of the Canada Social Report
are descriptive. There is a section, for example, that explains the major
social programs in the country. Two additional sections present the social
policy record. They comprise both an historic tracking of federal social
programs in key policy domains and new measures announced each month by
the federal, provincial/territorial and municipal orders of government.

Selected content (from the Social Policy
Record section of the site):
Canadas social policies continue to evolve as they respond to changes
in the social, economic and political landscape. These reports chronicle
key social policy areas from their beginnings to the present day. We are
starting with Child Benefits (immediately below) and will be adding other
social policy areas.

Canada Social Report:
Social Policy Record, Child Benefits
May 2015
Child Benefits (PDF - 60KB, 5 pages)http://www.canadasocialreport.ca/SocialPolicyRecord/ChildBenefits.pdf
May 2015
By Gilles : Social program historians will be pleased to find this brief
but comprehensive timeline of federal children's tax benefits, starting
with the first income tax reduction for families with children in 1918.
This overview traces the evolution of children's benefits from 1918 right
up to the 2015 federal budget.

Related link from the
Caledon Institute of Social Policy:

Child Benefits in Canada: Politics Versus
Policy (PDF - 841KB, 28 pages)http://www.caledoninst.org/Publications/PDF/1074ENG.pdf
Ken Battle, June 2015
Child benefits are social programs that can be powerful tools to combat
poverty and inequality. They not only help low-income families but also
the middle class. The federal and provincial/territorial governments over
the years have achieved considerable progress in strengthening the architecture
of child benefits in Canada.

Unfortunately, the current federal government took an about-face on child
benefits when it came to power in 2006. It imposed a series of programs
intended to help not only low- and middle-income families  the traditional
target of child benefits  but also affluent households that do not
need help from government.

INTRO by Gilles:

KUDOS
and special thanks to our friends at the Caledon Institute of Social
Policy!

When the Harper Government tabled its 2012
federal budget, one of the myriad measures buried in the Budget
Omnibus Bill was the defunding of the National Council of Welfare
(NCW), an arm's length advisory body whose role it was to keep the
federal policy-making machine accountable to Parliament and to the
citizens of Canada in matters relating to welfare and social development.
The bad news is that when the Council closed its doors in the fall
of 2012, there was no other organization waiting in the wings to
take over the maintenance and updating of the valuable collection
of qualitative and quantitative information on Canadian social programs.
The good news is that Caledon and its partners have stepped up and
done what had to be done to re-launch the most valuable segments
of that collection *outside* of government, without input nor interference
from the Harper Government .Booooooo, Harper Government.

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